Poetic Asides blog by Robert E Brewer on the Writer’s Digest website runs Wednesday poetry prompts. Today, I find myself drawn to this week’s prompt and feeling the need to opine poetically — as well as in venting prose — about yesterday’s policy announcements designed to harm the most vulnerable under the guise of good-for-the-taxpayer or good-for the-environment rhetoric.

“Don’t You See?”

Don’t you see the needin your citizens as youraise their rates to heightsunscalable by them, theirfamilies, their care-givers. Don’t you see the needin your citizensas you drop their treatment claimdollars to lows socruel they’d be better offdead.